Variety has the news: Aki Kaurismaki’s ”Le Havre,” Pierre Schoeller’s ”The Minister” and Jeff Nichols’ ”Take Shelter” shared awards Saturday at Cannes from the Fipresci Intl. Federation of Film Critics. Also announced Saturday, Cannes’ Ecumenical Jury awarded its main Prix to Italian Paolo Sorrentino’s Sean...
Monthly Archives: May 2011
Winning Grand Prize in the Critics Week competition, Take Shelter is a psychological thriller directed by Jeff Nichols, starring Michael Shannon and Jessica Chastain. The only American feature film vying for the Critics Week honor, Take Shelter premiered at Sundance and will be released by Sony Pictures Classics. (via The Wrap) The official synopsis says, “A...
I got burned in back in April when I showed you a bogus set of posters for The Skin I Live In that turned out to be fan-made, so I was wary about publishing this one if I couldn’t be sure it was authentic. But since today is Almodovar Day in Cannes, I’ll go with it now. A good opportunity to redirect readers to a previous post featuring several stills...
The Guardian’s Peter Bradshaw says Pedro Almodovar’s The Skin I Live In “has a fanatical intensity… It is twisted and mad, and its choreography and self-possession are superb… ” The Skin I Live In is adapted from the 2003 novel Mygale (Tarantula) by Thierry Jonquet, but clearly Almod√≥var has taken something from Georges Franju’s...